ABOUT THE BOOK
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Rituals can be described as
established patterns of religious activity embedded in the cultural
consciousness of a people, seeking to link the mundane or natural reality with
the divine or trans-natural. Although scholars all over the world have evinced
a marked interest in the study of Hindu, and in particular Vedic, ritual in the
recent years, viewing it from different perspectives, there has been hardly any
focus on the ritual behavior of Kashmiri Brahmins, or Kashmiri Pandits as they
are more commonly known, as a separate
area of scholastic inquiry. This is perhaps because the fundamental core of
their rites and rituals is much the same as that of the ritual system
prevailing among Hindus in other parts of the country. At the same time, with
regional factors or deshachara coming into play, a whole body of new
accountrements has grown around this core over the centuries which can be
characterized as distinctly Kashmiri.
ABOUT Author
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Dr. S.S. Toshkhani is a
leading scholar of Kashmiri language, literature, art and culture. He is author
of six books including History of Kashmiri Literature (in Hindi), and Editor,
Malini.